Claude Monet, also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise.
Recommended books on Claude Monet: Claude Monet: Sunshine and Waterlilies: Sunshine and Waterlilies (Smart About Art); Claude Monet - 1840-1926: a Feast for the Eyes; The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings (Clark Art Institute); Monet's Garden: Through the Seasons at Giverny, Harry N. Abrams; Claude Monet - 1840-1926: a Feast for the Eyes by Karin Sagner; Claude Monet: Life and Art by Paul Hayes Tucker; Claude Monet: The Magician of Colour (Adventures in Art); Monet: Impressions of Light (Great Masters); Claude Monet, 1840-1926, Taschen; Monet Art Institute of Chicago (Artists in Focus), Harry N. Abrams; Monet in the 20th Century, Yale University Press; Monet's Passion: Ideas, Inspiration and Insights from the Painter's Gardens.